Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.
If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.